SAS Vice Dean: Ramin Sedehi

Ramin Sedehi of UCSF Stanford Health Care in San Francisco has been
named Vice Dean for Finance and Administration in the School of Arts and
Sciences, effective March 20. The appointment, recently announced by SAS
Dean Samuel Preston, makes Mr. Sedehi the chief financial and administrative
officer of the School with oversight responsibilities for matters of budget,
facilities, computing, and human resources. He replaces Mike Mandl, who
left Penn to assume a vice presidency at Duke University in November.

At UCSF Stanford Health Care, Mr. Sedehi has served as Director of Schools
of Medicine Support since 1997. In that role he has been responsible for
all financial operations and transactions between the central UCSF Stanford
Health Care organization and the schools of medicine at the University of
California at San Francisco and Stanford, which together encompass 36 departments
and 2000 faculty. Prior to the merger that created UCSF Stanford Health
Care, Mr. Sedehi held several financial positions at the UCSF Medical Center
from 1990 to 1997.

Mr. Sedehi holds a B.A. in Chemistry and a Master of Public Administration
degree from California State University--Hayward.

"Based upon our meetings with Ramin and discussions with those
who have worked with him, I am confident that he will be highly effective
in advancing the programs of the School" said Samuel Preston, Dean
of the School of Arts and Sciences. "Let me take this opportunity,"
Dean Preston added, "to thank Tom Stump from the School of Engineering
and Applied Science for his outstanding service as Interim Vice Dean. I
am pleased to report that Tom will stay on in this capacity until Ramin
arrives."